Change Rate Of Speed

CHANGE RATE OF SPEED.

THE D.Y. & A.A. DON'T WANT TO CRAWL ON PACKARD ST.

THE COUNCIL WILL BE GIVEN A RIDE FRIDAY TO TEST RATES OF SPEED.

An ordinance has been introduced allowing the D., Y. & A. A. road the right to run the Detroit cars down Packard st., Ann Arbor, faster than a snail's pace. The council has been invited to take a trolley ride this Friday afternoon to experience the testing of the various rates of speed. In this connection it may be well to remark that any alderman with a watch can tell just what rate of speed the car is going by counting the rails. The number of rails the car passes over in 20 seconds is the number of miles per hour the car is going. For instance, the car passes over 12 rails in 20 seconds, the car is going at the rate of 12 miles an hour. The Argus recently figured this at various rates of speed, demonstrating that this rule is mathematically correct, and it affords a very easy opportunity for each alderman to tell for himself just how fast he is going.